GREENHOUSE TECHNICIAN
Full-time available
Languages: English
Experience: Horticulture or Greenhouse Technician Diploma or equivalent experience working in a greenhouse or nursery. Forklift license is an asset.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Planting, growing, and potting up annuals, perennials, trees, and shrubs.
- Precise watering according to each plant’s needs and management of irrigation systems.
- Monitoring for disease, pests, and other changes in plant health.
- Monitoring and controlling environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, and ventilation.
- Preventing conditions that compromise plant health.
- Perform inspections to identify and address issues related to pests, diseases, and nutrient deficiencies.
- Scheduling and implementing an IPM program.
- Ensuring plants are cared for over weekends and holidays.
- Maintaining the greenhouse and nursery, ensuring it is clean, neat, tidy, and well-organized.
- Maintaining accurate records and documentation related to plant growth, environmental conditions, and any treatments or interventions applied.
- Updating and tracking inventory.
- Labeling and arranging trays and pots methodically and systematically.
- Assembling and attaching plant labels.
- Pack and prepare orders for clients and customer pick-up and delivery.
- Accurate reporting and updating of plant and growing materials.
- Ensure all clean-out tasks and startup tasks are completed, including ensuring the greenhouse is cleaned and ready for planting.
- Ensuring production lines are organized, prepared, cleaned, and maintained.
- Equipment and facility maintenance tasks include cleaning and repairing equipment and greenhouse structures and ensuring proper functioning of irrigation systems, heating, and ventilation systems.
- Following all safety protocols and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations, including the safe handling and storage of chemicals and PPE
Requirements and skills:
- Equipment operations such as tractors are considered an asset.
- A pesticide application license is considered an asset.
- Experience working in a greenhouse or nursery.
- Experience and understanding of the production of ornamental plants.
- Practical, hands-on experience growing and caring for hundreds of plants and general gardening knowledge.
- A solutions-oriented thinker with experience diagnosing, troubleshooting, and overcoming plant health issues and pests.
- Able to use a computer, smartphone, and/or tablet and able to work with Microsoft products and Google Suite.
- Disciplined, reliable, methodical, and punctual with updating records.
- Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic working environment and are familiar with communication and coordination of tasks using Google Drive and shared documents.
- Able to take initiative, pursue self-directed tasks, and work independently.
- Adaptable and flexible with changing weather and daily schedules, accepting that some days may be longer than other days.
- Able to maintain a solutions-oriented disposition even during stressful situations.
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment.
- Work under pressure.
- Attention to detail.
- Working outdoors in all weather conditions.
- Bending, lifting, kneeling, hot and humid.
- Ability to lift 25-50lbs (plants, plant material, bags of soil etc.).
- Adaptable and flexible with changing weather and daily schedules, accepting that some days may be longer than other days.
Please note: only candidates being considered will be contacted for an interview.